High-Speed Rail Project Generates 30 Million Workdays!
7 December 2012
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The Tanger-Casablanca high-speed rail (LGV) project is 50% complete, including the study, civil engineering, and terminal installation phases, announced the Director General of the National Office of Railways (ONCF), Mohamed Rabie Khlie, on Thursday in Kenitra.
"Today, after the study phases, funding mobilization, and calls for tenders, the Moroccan LGV project is now on track for a new stage of its life, which consists of the implementation work according to the planned schedule," said Mr. Khlie during a first visit to the LGV work sites for the national media.
"Regarding the civil engineering contracts, they have all been awarded, integrating for the first time in the launched calls for tenders, the national preference clause," he specified, adding that 50% of the civil engineering works budget has been allocated to national companies.
In terms of job creation, Mr. Khlie noted that "during the works phase, nearly 30 million days of direct and indirect employment are generated, while during the operating phase, nearly 1,500 direct and 800 indirect jobs will also be created."
Furthermore, Mr. Khlie stressed that "this project will allow, through the participation of several Moroccan engineering firms in the project management, to acquire the industrial technique of the LGV and a local transfer of skills for the deployment of the rest of the national LGV master plan of 1,500 km."
Regarding the financing of this ambitious project, Mr. Khlie recalled that this investment required a total budget of 20 billion dirhams, with 50% participation from France, 25% from Gulf countries, while the remaining 25% is financed by the Hassan II Fund and the State's investment budget.
For his part, the development division director, Mohamed Smouni, pointed out that the project will increase the number of passengers, improve road safety and environmental protection, in addition to job creation.
The visit covered the construction site of the Sebou viaduct, which spans the river from bank to bank and requires an investment of 129 million dirhams (MDH), and the work site for earthworks, implementation of materials, ordinary works of art, and the restoration of communication routes on the Sebou site.
This last site, which required a budget of 250 MDH, crosses the municipality of Ouled Slama and the urban municipality of Kenitra and includes the work of connecting the LGV to the existing railway link between Casablanca and Fes and the civil engineering works.
The site for work related to the treatment of compressible areas, the creation of the Kenitra "work base", connected to the operating network and the LGV under construction, were also visited, as well as the pre-stressed concrete sleeper factory, which produces 1,200 sleepers per day.
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Published December 7, 2012.
Posted online December 7, 2012.
"Today, after the study phases, funding mobilization, and calls for tenders, the Moroccan LGV project is now on track for a new stage of its life, which consists of the implementation work according to the planned schedule," said Mr. Khlie during a first visit to the LGV work sites for the national media.
"Regarding the civil engineering contracts, they have all been awarded, integrating for the first time in the launched calls for tenders, the national preference clause," he specified, adding that 50% of the civil engineering works budget has been allocated to national companies.
In terms of job creation, Mr. Khlie noted that "during the works phase, nearly 30 million days of direct and indirect employment are generated, while during the operating phase, nearly 1,500 direct and 800 indirect jobs will also be created."
Furthermore, Mr. Khlie stressed that "this project will allow, through the participation of several Moroccan engineering firms in the project management, to acquire the industrial technique of the LGV and a local transfer of skills for the deployment of the rest of the national LGV master plan of 1,500 km."
Regarding the financing of this ambitious project, Mr. Khlie recalled that this investment required a total budget of 20 billion dirhams, with 50% participation from France, 25% from Gulf countries, while the remaining 25% is financed by the Hassan II Fund and the State's investment budget.
For his part, the development division director, Mohamed Smouni, pointed out that the project will increase the number of passengers, improve road safety and environmental protection, in addition to job creation.
The visit covered the construction site of the Sebou viaduct, which spans the river from bank to bank and requires an investment of 129 million dirhams (MDH), and the work site for earthworks, implementation of materials, ordinary works of art, and the restoration of communication routes on the Sebou site.
This last site, which required a budget of 250 MDH, crosses the municipality of Ouled Slama and the urban municipality of Kenitra and includes the work of connecting the LGV to the existing railway link between Casablanca and Fes and the civil engineering works.
The site for work related to the treatment of compressible areas, the creation of the Kenitra "work base", connected to the operating network and the LGV under construction, were also visited, as well as the pre-stressed concrete sleeper factory, which produces 1,200 sleepers per day.
LNT
Lnt.ma
Published December 7, 2012.
Posted online December 7, 2012.
